[chmod600]

What year was that published? I read the message as "support the US war effort so that we don't get conquored by our enemies". That doesn't seem like a bad message to me.

The main problem I can see is the depiction of the Japanese person (the emporor?). That's pretty offensive by modern standards, but I don't see a reason we should apply those standards here.

Even today, cartoonists regularly exaggerate facial features of almost anyone to serve their purposes, so if you think that's wrong you simply don't like the medium. And we were at war, do you expect him to show reverence for the foreign leaders who are making war against his country?

[themaninthedark]

Looks more like a caricature of Tojo than emperor Showa to me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caricature https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Tojo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito

[z3c0]

Strange to think that the caricature is quickly dying. It was a crux of political cartoons throughout all of the 1900's, and also a common form of street art.